IK Multimedia ARC System vs Acoustic Treatment???

[doncaparker]

Originally Posted by dft3670

Wow, That was was a whole 12 pages and an hour of my life I'm never getting back again.

Am I somewhere in the audio ballpark by taking the following points from this discussion.

1. Most project studio rooms acoustics are far from ideal.

2. Taking acurate measurements to determine where problems areas are is very important in making treatment decisions.

2. Acoustical treatment is always the first and best option in taming a rooms acoustical issues.

3. There becomes a point where physical space and/or financial resources reach a point where treatment options have been exhausted.

4. A system such as ARC can be utilized at this point to squeeze a bit more correction out of the room.

5. In the end translation is what matters to me. At the end of the day I need to take MY mix out of MY room that can translate on the widest variety of systems possible OR make MY mastering engineer smile. To me anything that gets me an inch closer to that Holy Grail, ARC, Roxul, 703C or a lava lamp moved three inch further left of my Focal Twins is always worth a look see.

This is exactly how I see things. Well summarized.

[toodamnhip]

Originally Posted by Samuelito

Hi all,

haven't read the entire thread but, si jamais, the plugin for running the ARC system in itunes and others is called "Audio Hijack pro".
price - $32
Cheers,

Sam

Thanks Sam for the info. Before trying AH Pro, I had been referred to Neutrino as a way to process system audio going through my mac in realtime. But I found NO way to do a complete Hi Jack of audio in REAL Time. It seems that Neutrino is good for AFTER the fact.
I want to insert the ik multimedia ARC speaker adjustment system on my whole system AT ALL TIMES in Real time so I don;t have to bother with it as an insert on my master bus in my DAW.

So I have been playing with Audio Hijack Pro and have found out a few things. Please chime in anyone if you have any comments about these things:

Latency-Audio Hijack Pro does introduce a tiny amount of additional latency in addition to the latency created by the DAW one might be recording in. I found some latency adjustments deep in AH, (under “source type” advanced/buffering) but they seem to only apply when putting the program in record mode. They really didn;t improve realtime throughput nor worsen it.
So the total Latency in AH Pro seems to be this: DAW Latency, (set by the buffers of one’s DAW), +Audio Hijack’s Latency+any given AU effect plug in used INSIDE of AH Pro, which in this case will be the arc system’s inherent latency.
Thus I have 3 questions:
1) Anyone have a solution to improve the Latency of Audio Hijack Pro. I would describe it as making any realtim audio played to feel a bit spngy instead of crisp.
2) Certain AU plugs don;t seem to work right in AH Pro, I hope arc works right. For ex: Izotope Ozone loads but doesn;t open in AH pro.Anyone tried ARC in AH Pro?
3) What is the added Latency of the ARC system if any?

The last thing is HOW to use AH Pro.

The way I have it set up is to hit “Hijack” and strap any given effects across the effects bus of AH Pro.
This means that if I have to record a drum or guitar part, I can just take AH Pro OUT of Highjack mode , which will eliminate any latency while tracking.
The problem with that is I am afraid ot will make my ears a bits nutso to shut off the ARC filtering while tracking, going back and forth. Obviously, for mix down, using ARC is easy as latency is not an issue. Anyone have a better solution for all of this to avoid latency while tracking parts?